The new lawsuit against Google: the largest editions require payments for quoting their publications
Major European publishers filed a civil lawsuit against Google . The corporation uses materials of articles for display in the snippet of the issue.
Publishers from Germany ask the court to make a final decision on whether the search corporation is obliged to pay royalties for the use of materials owned by publishers. The new lawsuit was prepared in October 2015, when the publishers once again failed to convince Google of the need for such payments. The initiator of the proceedings was once again the leadership of the VG Media media consortium, which includes at least 200 publishing houses.
According to Google representatives, publishers are already receiving a percentage of deductions from advertisements placed on the pages of their websites, Reuters reports . But publishers want to receive even more payments from the search engine, including for displaying excerpts of publications in snippet, they believe.
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Google News , Yahoo! News and similar sites, which, according to publishers, make a profit from their content, but do not pay for it. In particular, claims to the dominant position of the Google News search service were expressed by the publishing house Axel Springer , the flagship brand of which is the tabloid Bild , and News Corp. owning The Wall Street Journal . In June 2014, more than 200 publishers represented by the same VG Media consortium, including Axel Springer, initiated an arbitration process against Google. Publishers claimed 11% of the company's revenue from publishing excerpts from online newspapers and magazines. Axel Springer last year tried to ban content from showing its content on Google News, but publisher resources were rapidly losing traffic and the ban was lifted.
The new lawsuit against Google will be the fifth in a row. Earlier attempts by publishers to get paid from Google failed. In particular, in early 2013, German publishers lobbied for an expansion of the Copyright Act to extend to so-called “news snippets”. But then, thanks to the new law “On Assistive Copyright”, Google received the right to use news snippets with content of publisher sites in search results.
EU regulators planned to discuss the issue on 10 December. They find out whether it is necessary to take any action regarding news aggregators in the light of new initiatives to protect copyright, writes Financial Times. One of the meetings of publishers with representatives of the European anti-monopoly department and other regulators was held in August 2015.
On October 31, 2014, the Spanish Congress approved amendments to the law on intellectual property. The authorities of Spain ordered search engines to pay fees to publications for publishing excerpts from their materials. Now the expediency of such innovation is discussed in the European Union. However, on December 16, 2014, after the introduction of this tax in Spain, Google News service stopped its work in the country.
Publishers from Germany ask the court to make a final decision on whether the search corporation is obliged to pay royalties for the use of materials owned by publishers. The new lawsuit was prepared in October 2015, when the publishers once again failed to convince Google of the need for such payments. The initiator of the proceedings was once again the leadership of the VG Media media consortium, which includes at least 200 publishing houses.
According to Google representatives, publishers are already receiving a percentage of deductions from advertisements placed on the pages of their websites, Reuters reports . But publishers want to receive even more payments from the search engine, including for displaying excerpts of publications in snippet, they believe.
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Google News , Yahoo! News and similar sites, which, according to publishers, make a profit from their content, but do not pay for it. In particular, claims to the dominant position of the Google News search service were expressed by the publishing house Axel Springer , the flagship brand of which is the tabloid Bild , and News Corp. owning The Wall Street Journal . In June 2014, more than 200 publishers represented by the same VG Media consortium, including Axel Springer, initiated an arbitration process against Google. Publishers claimed 11% of the company's revenue from publishing excerpts from online newspapers and magazines. Axel Springer last year tried to ban content from showing its content on Google News, but publisher resources were rapidly losing traffic and the ban was lifted.
The new lawsuit against Google will be the fifth in a row. Earlier attempts by publishers to get paid from Google failed. In particular, in early 2013, German publishers lobbied for an expansion of the Copyright Act to extend to so-called “news snippets”. But then, thanks to the new law “On Assistive Copyright”, Google received the right to use news snippets with content of publisher sites in search results.
EU regulators planned to discuss the issue on 10 December. They find out whether it is necessary to take any action regarding news aggregators in the light of new initiatives to protect copyright, writes Financial Times. One of the meetings of publishers with representatives of the European anti-monopoly department and other regulators was held in August 2015.
On October 31, 2014, the Spanish Congress approved amendments to the law on intellectual property. The authorities of Spain ordered search engines to pay fees to publications for publishing excerpts from their materials. Now the expediency of such innovation is discussed in the European Union. However, on December 16, 2014, after the introduction of this tax in Spain, Google News service stopped its work in the country.
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